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The WKU women’s basketball team is getting ready to head back on the road.
The Lady Toppers (1-3, 0-0) are gearing up for the Georgia St. Tournament this weekend.
They will face Mercer on Friday at 6 p.m. ET before facing Georgia St. on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. Both games will take place in Atlanta, Ga.
The Lady Toppers are currently on a three-game losing streak. Most recently, they suffered a 73-71 road loss to Indiana last Friday.
Despite the... Read more

WKU football defensive lineman Jaylon George was arrested Saturday night in Bowling Green and charged with careless driving and a DUI.
George, 20, was booked in the Warren County Regional Jail at 3:43 a.m. Saturday and released at 9:46 a.m.
In the incident report obtained by Spectrum News, an office saw George driving a vehicle in the parking lot of an apartment complex off the 31-W Bypass in Bowling Green around 2:37 a.m. Saturday. George pulled out of the parking lot, nearly... Read more

By Ryan Dearbone
The WKU Men’s basketball team (2-1) played about as perfect a first half as you could play. The Hilltoppers broke free from a 13-13 tie with Nicholls State (Southland Conference) to torch the Colonels for 60 points in the first half. Freshman guard, Taveion Hollingsworth led the charge with a perfect first 20 minutes. Hollingsworth went 8 for 8 for 18 points. WKU did most of its work in the paint racking up 38 points to Nicholls State’s... Read more

By Ryan Dearbone
The road to clinching the program’s fourth straight Conference USA Volleyball Championship wasn’t exactly an easy one for WKU. Sunday’s title contest was a rematch between WKU and the North Texas Mean Green, the only team in the conference to defeat the Tops this season. The Lady Toppers (30-3) came out guns blazing in the first two sets, by taking it to the North Texas Mean Green. WKU scored five straight points to start off the... Read more

By Ryan Dearbone
Senior night is generally memorable on the Hill, but WKU and Middle Tennessee State University made the 2018 version unforgettable. After 3 low scoring quarters, in which neither team found its groove, both teams couldn’t stop scoring. WKU’s senior quarterback Mike White led the charge with 5 total touchdowns and 485 yards on 39-54 attempts. White spread the wealth as three Toppers (Lucky Jackson, Kyle Towner, and Nacarius Fant) had over 100 yards for the game.
MTSU had a... Read more

The final score didn’t indicate how close the game Tuesday night was.
In the end, No. 6 Notre Dame was too much for WKU, winning 78-65.
The WKU Lady Toppers left it all on the floor and almost pulled off what would have been one of the biggest upsets in college basketball. However, three things did the Lady Toppers in: Points in the paint, bench points and a quiet night from senior forward Ivy Brown.
WKU only shot 29% from the field... Read more

The WKU women’s basketball team is getting ready for one of its biggest games of the season, when it hosts No. 6 Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. ET inside Diddle Arena.
Notre Dame will be the highest-ranked opponent to play inside Diddle Arena since 2013.
Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard and Athletic Director Todd Stewart talked about the significance of a team like Notre Dame to visit Bowling Green:
WKU (1-1, 0-0) enters the match-up coming off a successful... Read more

WKU football’s comeback attempt on Saturday night fell short.
The Hilltoppers (5-5, 3-3) lost their third straight game, this time to Marshall (7-3, 4-2) by the score of 30-23.
WKU, who entered the game coming off back-to-back losses against Florida Atlantic and Vanderbilt, was hoping to gain bowl eligibility on Saturday night.
The Hilltoppers scored first, courtesy of a QB Mike White six-yard touchdown pass to WR Quin Jernighan, in the first quarter.
Marshall responded though, scoring 30 of the game’s next 33... Read more

The WKU football team is one win away from clinching bowl eligibility.
The Hilltoppers (5-4, 3-2) will be hoping to do so on Saturday when they face Marshall (6-3, 3-2).
Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. ET in Huntington, W. Va.
Both WKU and Marshall each enter the match-up with two-game losing streaks.
Western Kentucky head coach Mike Sanford talked about the match-up on Thursday after the Hilltoppers’ practice:
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The Western Kentucky men’s basketball team is getting ready for its final exhibition of the season on Tuesday, when the Hilltoppers welcome Cumberland to Diddle Arena.
Tip-off is set for roughly 8 p.m. ET.
It will be a special game for WKU guard Darius Thompson, who’s father, Lonnie, is the head coach of the Cumberland men’s basketball team:
The Hilltoppers have already played two exhibition games this season, beating both Samford and Campbellsville. Thompson hopes to see similar play from his Tops on... Read more